Enhancing Security

Many Orchid products can be used to add additional layers of security, either proactive or reactive, to Sage 300.

Security is about much more than remembering to lock the office door behind you, or scanning your emails for viruses. If we take a broader view, anything that can help identify or mitigate threats to your business might be considered part of your security regime:

Some security threats are external, but when it comes to fraud the sad reality is that risk is far more likely to be inside the business.

Technical problems like data corruption might not involve any malicious action, but that’s small comfort when they result in disruption to your operations and start impacting your bottom line.

Many of Orchid’s products can be used to add additional layers of security, either proactive or reactive, to your Sage 300 environment.

Our video and commentary below goes into detail on the security features of EFT Processing, Extender and Process Scheduler.

Many other Orchid products can also play a role in enhancing security, not least:

Positive Pay: Where payment by paper cheque is still required, EFT Processing can still help reduce the risk of cheque fraud by generating ‘Positive Pay’ files for participating banks. (The bank won’t honour presented cheques unless they match details on these files.)

Refresh Cubes: E.g. in the lead up to month end, refresh and distribute an Info-Explorer cube that can be used to identify old unposted batches, clearing or suspense accounts with non-zero balances, etc.

EFT Processing

Electronic processing of AP, AR or Payroll transactions removes opportunities for cheque fraud. EFT Processing also has other security features, such as encryption, audit logging and 2-step processing.